Hookipa yesterday morning. Photo by Patrick Wardle.
It was a wonderful day of light wind winging at Kanaha.
This is Hookipa instead.
4am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers is mostly reading NW wrap and can't be used to
detect small southerly energy. Check the Lahaina (the free website is working again) and Kihei webcam if interested, for size,
conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
4.2ft @ 14s from 311° (NW)
Hanalei
Waimea
Pauwela
The upstream buoys show two different energies from the NW quadrant. The longer period one (14-16s) comes from the fetch indicated by the black arrow in the collage of the maps of Feb 17 through 20 below. This one is not going to be particularly noticeable in Maui until tomorrow, as it started with a pretty west and relatively small fetch. The shorter period one (11-12s) likely comes from the small nearby fetch indicated by the red arrow. Luckily, Pauwela also still records a bit of 8s energy from a northerly direction, which will add to the (poor) mix and hopefully keep complete flatness at bay. Nonetheless, it's going to be a pretty small day on the north shore for the season. Home guess for Hookipa is for waist to chest high. Not sure about the quality, as it will rapidly deteriorate as strong easterly trades build throughout the day.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.
Wind map at noon (1 day old). The other ones can be found here.
Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner
of the North Pacific):
South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):
Morning sky.
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